Watch: police parade captured Mexican drugs cartel leader

Watch the moment police march Los Zetas drugs cartel leader Omar Trevino
Morales, or 'Z-42', across an airport runway to an armoured vehicle
following his arrest in Mexico

By Telegraph Video, and AP, video source APTN

9:29AM GMT 05 Mar 2015

Mexican police and soldiers on Wednesday captured Omar Trevino Morales, widely considered to be the most important leader of the Zetas drug cartel that once carved a path of brutal bloodshed along the country's northern border with the US.

National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said the man known as "Z-42" was arrested in a pre-dawn raid in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a wealthy suburb of the northern city of Monterrey.

Police escort Omar Trevino Morales across the runway (APTN)

The Mexican government had offered a 30 (m) million peso (2 (m) million US dollars) reward for his capture on weapons and organised crime charges.

The suspect is the brother of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, described as the most bloodthirsty leader of Mexico's most violent cartel.

Miguel Angel was arrested in July 2013, almost a year after Mexican marines killed the Zetas' other biggest leader, Heriberto Lazcano "El Lazca."

Rubido said Omar, 38, took over leadership of the Zetas after his brother's arrest and immediately became a target of their investigation.

The Zetas was originally a gang formed by deserters from an elite army unit and left a trail of brutality, bloodshed and mutilated bodies across northern Mexico during territorial battles with the rival Gulf cartel.